Re: publisher field for Blogposts and websites

Hi Gerald,

this is indeed a strange behaviour. I would blame it on the way Google's
structured data testing tool works: it does, as far as i know, not
necessarily validate/verify annotations strictly the way schema.org
defines them, but more in a way they need the annotations for feeding
their Rich Snippets and Rich Cards.

So I would assume Google doesn't care about having a schema:Person as a
publisher, but requires a logo (or some kind of picture) to process a
beautiful Rich Snippet/Rich Card out of it.

Best, Elias

On 07.06.2016 08:36, Bäck, Gerald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently doing my first steps with JSON-LD and try it on my private
> blog. As far as I understand Blogposts do require a publisher field, which
> can only be an organisation. But I think it should be possible for persons
> to be publishers too, but I also would like to question, that blogposts or
> even Websites do need a publisher field at all.
> 
> I tested my blog with Google's Structured Data Testing Tool. Interestingly
> enough the tool did not complain about the publisher being a Person, but
> that the publisher entitiy had no logo, which on the other hand is not
> allowed as a field for a person.
> 
> https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baeck.at%2Fblog%2F2016%2F05%2F30%2FWahlmanipulationen%2F
> 
> I also tested the root of my blog, which is defined as website, also with
> myself as a publisher person. This time the tool was fine with it.
> 
> https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baeck.at%2F
> 
> thx, Gerald
> 
> 
> 
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